Prey Not Running

[Langzor]

Hey all,

I got Prey yesterday and installed it, and when I try and run it it says that the Card or Drivers are not compatible. I'm a PC Newb, so I have no goddamn clue what they're talking about, but thanks to a help site, I now know what they are, but I still don't know how to fix it. This is taken from my Dxdiag, apparently:

My card is an ATI Radeon X1300 Series, my Driver an atiumdag.dll,atiumdva.dat,atitmmxx.dll, Driver Version: 7.14.0010.0449 (English) which is compatible with Prey according to their support page, so I have no clue what else to do. I'm currently patching it up to 1.4 to see if that helps. Any help?

P.S My PC is a Vista, if that's important.

[evanazzo]

I think it would mean you need a direct x 10 driver update or something. Wait for someone else to confirm it but I'm pretty sure thats what you need

[Langzor]

Alright, I patched it up to date, dled the latest DirectX and I still got the same error message. Here's the error log, if it helps.

[hide]Prey 1.4.119 win-x86 Nov 20 2007 18:31:35
2127 MHz Intel CPU with MMX & SSE & SSE2 & SSE3 & HTT & x64
2048 MB System Memory
9 MB Video Memory
Winsock Initialized
Found interface: {0DFE5674-39A4-43E9-B4BE-713ABF46D249} Intel(R) 82562V 10/100 Platform LAN Connect - 192.168.1.100/255.255.255.0
Sys_InitNetworking: adding loopback interface
prey using MMX & SSE & SSE2 & SSE3 for SIMD processing
enabled Flush-To-Zero mode
enabled Denormals-Are-Zero mode
------ Initializing File System ------
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\game00.pk4 with checksum 0xff851bf2
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\game01.pk4 with checksum 0xa208af14
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\game02.pk4 with checksum 0xaa46eb08
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\game03.pk4 with checksum 0x39a5ed9c
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak000.pk4 with checksum 0x7dc00ede
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak001.pk4 with checksum 0xd06647b1
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak002.pk4 with checksum 0x57dce443
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak003.pk4 with checksum 0x263006fe
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak004.pk4 with checksum 0xcc075380
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak005.pk4 with checksum 0xead35190
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak006.pk4 with checksum 0xed8ce397
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak020.pk4 with checksum 0x39191193
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak040.pk4 with checksum 0x40dd9bb5
Current search path:
C:\Program Files\Prey/base
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak040.pk4 (468 files)
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak020.pk4 (23 files)
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak006.pk4 (108 files)
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak005.pk4 (10 files)
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak004.pk4 (3739 files)
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak003.pk4 (4111 files)
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak002.pk4 (5337 files)
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak001.pk4 (6270 files)
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak000.pk4 (3318 files)
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\game03.pk4 (2 files)
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\game02.pk4 (10 files)
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\game01.pk4 (2 files)
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\game00.pk4 (2 files)
game DLL: 0x0 in pak: 0x0
Addon pk4s:
file system initialized.
--------------------------------------
----- Initializing Decls -----
------------------------------
------- Initializing renderSystem --------
using ARB renderSystem
renderSystem initialized.
--------------------------------------
2661 strings read from strings/english001.lang
Couldn't open journal files
couldn't exec editor.cfg
execing default.cfg
couldn't exec preyconfig.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
2661 strings read from strings/english001.lang
----- Initializing Sound System ------
sound system initialized.
--------------------------------------
----- R_InitOpenGL -----
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...registered window class
...registered fake window class
...initializing QGL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'opengl32' ): succeeded
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetExtensionsStringARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSwapIntervalEXT
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribfvARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglChoosePixelFormatARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglCreatePbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleasePbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglDestroyPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglQueryPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglBindTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleaseTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSetPbufferAttribARB
...calling CDS: ok
...created window @ 0,0 (640x480)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...PIXELFORMAT 7 selected
...creating GL context: succeeded
...making context current: succeeded
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetExtensionsStringARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSwapIntervalEXT
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribfvARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglChoosePixelFormatARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglCreatePbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleasePbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglDestroyPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglQueryPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglBindTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleaseTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSetPbufferAttribARB

------- Input Initialization -------
Initializing DirectInput...
mouse: DirectInput initialized.
keyboard: DirectInput initialized.
------------------------------------
...initializing OpenAL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'openal32.dll' ): failed
...initializing OpenAL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'openal32.dll' ): failed
sound: STEREO
X..GL_ARB_multitexture not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_env_combine not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_cube_map not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_env_add not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_compression not found
X..GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic not found
X..GL_EXT_texture_lod not found
X..GL_1.4_texture_lod_bias not found
X..GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette not found
X..GL_EXT_texture3D not found
X..GL_EXT_stencil_wrap not found
X..GL_NV_register_combiners not found
X..GL_EXT_stencil_two_side not found
X..GL_ATI_separate_stencil not found
X..GL_ATI_fragment_shader not found
X..GL_ATI_text_fragment_shader not found
X..GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object not found
X..GL_ARB_vertex_program not found
X..GL_ARB_fragment_program not found
********************
ERROR: The current video card / driver combination does not support the necessary features.
********************
The current video card / driver combination does not support the necessary features.
Shutting down OpenGL subsystem
...wglMakeCurrent( NULL, NULL ): success
...deleting GL context: success
...releasing DC: success
...destroying window
...resetting display
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL[/hide]

[clayasaurus]

I don't think it has anything to do with DirectX.

Judging by those error messages, it looks like you need to install OpenGL drivers for your card. Just download the latest driver for your card, perhaps.

[Steve]

Yeah, doesn't look to be anything to do with direct x

[Damien_Azreal]

Yeah... that's a driver issue. Either your current driver is corrupt or just to old. Download the latest from AMD and you should be good.

[Langzor]

Woop! It worked, but then I got another error message. I won't post the whole Log, as it seems kinda obvious, I think. Just this: ERROR: DLL extraction to fs_savepath failed

Any more ideas?

[Wellenreiter]

Originally Posted by Langzor

9 MB Video Memory

That seems very wrong. Is this a notebook?

[Langzor]

Originally Posted by Wellenreiter

That seems very wrong. Is this a notebook?

Nope.

[Wellenreiter]

Alright, Vista. Somehow I didn't see that. Right, your ATI Video Driver is way too old. It may be compatible with Prey, but that refers to Windows XP. Download a newer video driver.

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

[Langzor]

Yes, I've got the newest one, and now I get this error. But at least it starts for around a couple of seconds.

ERROR: DLL extraction to fs_savepath failed

[fast-1]

Download Option 1 only ?

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ca...common-vista32

You got to remove your old driver first completely.

Then use this in SAFE MODE F8 on start up I think but you got Vista ?

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...904a11033.mspx

[Wellenreiter]

Originally Posted by Langzor

Yes, I've got the newest one, and now I get this error. But at least it starts for around a couple of seconds.

ERROR: DLL extraction to fs_savepath failed

I just googled your error message, and the first two hits come from this forum...

http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=30776

http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=25560

Both Vista-related.